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    Mother Nature always knows more than we do.

    Three weeks ago, to the day, I marked 8 eggs under a broody. She was never on the nest for a full 24 hours, often kicked out by other hens. Two more went broody and between the three, the marked eggs were almost always cold. I started gathering them and popping them under which ever broody...
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    Can I have your Rollaway Nesting Box Suggestions?

    I'm looking for recommendations on rollaway nesting boxes. I have the tried/true metal, 15 box setup and the bottoms are rotting out of each box. The hens often crush the eggs whilst laying in them which leads to many yellow faced hens and not very many eggs collected at the end of each day...
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    Candler is 0 for 16.

    I'm chucking my candler. I candled 12 banty eggs and saw chicks in all 12. Day 29 I pulled all 12 out and not a single one had a chick in them. All rotten eggs. I candled 12 turkey eggs on day 24 of the incubator. Saw 4 with no chick. I said to myself "Self, you've been wrong before" and I...
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    One day old Poult with splay leg or something more?

    We just hatched out Turkey poults and one can't walk. It just flops all over the place. One leg looks like it's trying real hard to move around, but the other, even though it moves, ends up straight behind the chick, who ends up face down. I have the legs splinted but the chick just flops...
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    Bedding for Poults

    Anyone use wood shaving from a mill or woodworking shop for their birds? I'm hatching out a group and I've always bought the shavings from the feed store. But we started milling/planing our own red oak boards and I have TONS of wood shavings. Anyone know of a reason why I should NOT use the...
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    All hens eating all eggs

    This summer has been horrible. First mites, then flies and now every last hen is eating their eggs. I watch them. They lay the egg turn around and start pecking at it. I had a ceramic darning egg that hurt their beaks in the nesting box and it worked until my dingbat son collected the egg...
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    Anyone have the link to the Poop Thread?

    I can't find the poop thread. Anyone have a link to it?
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    Cocci?

    One of my younger (2+ yrs old) hens pooped water and blood in front of me this afternoon. She doesn't appear ill in any way but when I grabbed her I could see she had dried yolk around her vent. We have no new chicks in our flock. Nothing new introduced to the environment, same coop, run and...
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    Coon, fox or something else?

    We lost our three Turkey poults Tuesday night to a predator. Broke through chicken wire into the run and dragged all three out and into the woods nearby. Left a few parts and pieces but nothing whole. Our experience with coons is they kill and eat right there and fox drag out and away, but...
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    What is this, the Plagues of Egypt? Now they have LICE!

    We've been battling NFM for 10+ weeks now. I just sprayed the entire flock and coop for a second time in 2 weeks this past Saturday with Elector PSP. I noticed one of my roosters (who was so severely injured by another rooster he couldn't dust bathe) had mites on him still after 5 days. I...
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    Spoke to Elanco regarding Elector PSP

    So I called and spoke to a veterinarian at Elanco Animal Health regarding Elector PSP. This is the information I received on the product, usage and effectiveness. In an uncontrolled environment, Elector PSP lasts on a properly sprayed chicken for 5-7 days. This means for birds kept in a non...
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    What to use instead of medicated feed?

    No feed suppliers in our area carry medicated starter. Does anyone know what I can mix into their starter mash that will boost their immune system? I have used oregano and cayenne in the past, but I've heard folks using Tumeric too. Anyone else add to their turkey starter? Chicks are 4 days old.
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    Worst mite infestation I've ever seen!

    OMG I've never seen so many mites. A Buff Orpington hen is sitting on 7 eggs in a little box in the barn. I checked her yesterday morning and didn't notice anything. This morning she was off the nest so I quickly went in to candle all 7 eggs. After candling I started walking over to the coop...
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    2 yr old Roo Injured or Sick?

    My 2 year old roo started hunching over with his head down in the corner of the yard two days ago. I put him in a crate, gave him yogurt and olive oil and raw egg mixed with water. He took everything I offered but I had to hold his head and put the food in his mouth. He wasn't injured, didn't...
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    Your experiences with Elector PSP

    I am interested in hearing your experiences with Elector PSP. I wanted to share my experience and hopefully others will chime in and help those who come along in the future. We are in week 3 of battling Northern Fowl Mites. I have been dusting with Garden and Poultry Dust (Permethrin) every...
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    Mites Mites Mites!

    Day 13 of the Northern Fowl Mite Invasion. Or is it? I found five or six crawling on the eggs when I got them this evening and took a few pics, magnified 128X to see the details. Two looked like Red Mites, but when I smooshed them, no red streak. Only gray. I check the birds during the day as...
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    Ocular Marek's vs the other kind? Could be both?

    Three weeks ago I noticed one of my barnyard mixes with a closed eye. I figured she got dinged by another hen. I kept an eye on her (no pun intended) and after about 7 days, the eye was open, normal and she appeared to have full vision. Last week my bantam roo got the snot kicked out of him...
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    Do genetics play a part in Hatch Rate?

    I have an easter egger mix that brooded 9 eggs. Nearly all of my layers are first or second generation hatches from the same rooster. Her first hatch was 8/9. Her second hatch was 4/7. Her third hatch, the current one is 2/9. She is a devoted brooder and sat faithfully for 21 days, so I...
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    Processing Turkeys at 36 Wks? Too Old?

    With the Avian flu hitting turkey houses earlier this year, I panicked and got two BBW turkeys in March instead of May. They are already HUGE even though they have feed for only half the day. Tonight I went to lock them up and both, who are hens, squatted down and coo'd at me. They're getting...
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    More on Avian Flu

    A big HUG to all you flock raisers out there who are losing your flocks. I'm devastated for you. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/almost-1-million-egg-laying-chickens-iowa-2-75-million-chickens-wisconsin-culled-deadly-bird-flu-spreads-across-us/
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